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This Perfume is Peace in a Bottle

by Dev Kumar
October 17, 2011

Barb Stegemann, a Halifax-based entrepreneur, has a brilliant approach to social investing. Her company, The 7 Virtues Beauty Inc., sources organic oils from suppliers in countries at war or in strife, such as Afghanistan and Haiti, paying farmers full market value for oil from orange blossoms and other crops. Peace Dividend Trust has helped. 

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